Doctor Dee exerts a perennial fascination, & ever
since "The Tempest" writers have used him for
a character: Meyrink (The Angel of the West Window)
John Crowley, Mary Gentle, & now Peter Ackroyd (The
House of Doctor Dee). And Test Department did an
album about him (The Enigma of Doctor Dee)... At
another time i mean to come back to Enochian,
one of the most legendary (if rudimentary) conlangs
of all time. Aleister, of course, meddled with it; but
perhaps the most fascinating thing for me is how
the idea that each of the letters has its own meaning,
& thus the meaning of a word can be derived from its
spelling--has migrated here out of Kabbalism,
unacknowledged.